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Committee:	House Criminal Jurisprudence
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Border drug trafficking | Crime statistics | Drug trafficking | Drug-related crimes | Eight-liners | Gambling | Homeland security | Identity theft | Illegal drugs | Mexico | Searches and seizures | Sexual assault | Terrorism |
Library Call Number:	L1836.77 c868h
Session:	77th R.S. (2001)
Online version:	View report [125 pages  File size: 5,810 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review changes in federal laws and law enforcement procedures, as well as recommendations from state and national agencies charged with homeland protection, to assess the need for changes in state criminal laws to protect life and property and to detect, interdict and respond to acts of terrorism
2.	Consider ways to cooperate with Mexican states to reduce international drug trafficking.
3.	Review the statutory law governing the use of devices known as "eight-liners" and suggest ways to eliminate ambiguity about the legality of their possession and use.
4.	Study trends and methods involved in identity theft in Texas. Suggest ways to reduce this type of crime.
5.	Consider the manner in which sexual assaults are reported in Texas, and specifically address the wide discrepancy between statistics reported in the Uniform Crime Report and estimates of other groups, such as the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center.
Committee:	Senate Crime Investigation
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report and recommendations of the Senate Committee Investigating Crime, 43rd Legislature, 1933-1934.
Subjects:	Courts | Crime | Crime statistics | Gambling | Law enforcement | Police departments | Texas Code of Criminal Procedure |
Library Call Number:	L1836.43 C868/S.J. of Tex., 44th Leg., R.S. 267 (1935)
Session:	43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version:	View report [40 pages  File size: 2,390 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate and report upon the present, and, if any, growing disregard and violation by the criminal element of any and all laws of this state.
2.	Investigate and report upon the effort or lack of effort on the part of any or all officers of the state government to enforce the laws of the state.
3.	Investigate and report upon the effect, if any, that the disregard of some of the laws of this state has upon encouraging and making possible the violation of other laws of the state.
4.	Investigate and report upon the effect, if any, that the lack of strict law enforcement by officials in certain sections has upon encouraging and making possible violations of law in other sections of the state.
5.	Investigate and report upon any defects, if any, in our penal laws, laws of criminal procedure, and in our present jury system.
6.	Investigate and fix responsibility, if possible, for the present seeming breakdown in the enforcement of our criminal laws.
7.	Investigate and suggest needed rearrangement or consolidation of our state police system.
8.	Investigate and report with reference to the so-called racket of slot machines and activities allowing bookmakers to run in Texas and whether or not certain lawyers of this state are in league with the illegal operators on a retainer basis to help them defeat the criminal laws of this state.

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